Qosmio X300-12H - Additional HDD Bracket

I own a Qosmio X300-12h and recently bought a second hard drive after finding out that it would hold a second one. After buying the hard drive I then found out that the seccond bracket was not placed in the laptop. Thus not able to install it.
Now the hard drive that I bought does fit into the area without a bracket but there is the possibility of it coming loose and causing more harm than good.
I have been all over Toshiba's web site including the page with my spec laptop and there is no sign of a bracket fitting to hold my second hard drive in place securely. And yes I have even gone to ebay but no luck there either.
If anyone has this spec laptop or simular to the X300 series could you please tell me if you laptop came with a second bracket or if you could like a web site that sells them this would be awsome.

Ok, good news to all the people who have had the same problem as me and couldn't find the part online because its almost impossible due to having such a bad description of the item and no pics to go a long side it.
I spoke to the Toshiba Parts department on and spoke to two lovely ladies who were very helpfull and made sure that the part I needed was the one that would correctly fit my laptop.
For you all to make this one billion times easy here is the part number for the X300-12h with any luck it should be the same for the most of X300 series "k000061060"
as to make sure that this is 100% compatible with your specific laptop as it might differ.
Well best of luck to you all Toshiba Qosmio fans and happy gaming with uber size HDD's
/highfive

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Hi,
I bought my Qosmio X300 -12H on 3d this month in UK, and just found that it does not have a fingerprint sensor.
As the User's Manual book and the pics on Toshiba website show, the fingerprint sensor should be in the middle of the two touch pad control buttons, but it's not there.
Is there anything wrong?
You can see it in the pic blow.
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The entire right part of the keyboard makes noise when I'm fast typing.
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Regards
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Are you 100% sure that this Qosmio X300-12H model should be equipped wit the fingerprint reader?
I doubt it.
Fact is that the same notebook series (in your case Qosmio X300) was equipped with different hardware specifications. This means that some X300 can support the fingerprint and some model dont support this feature.
I have checked the X300-12H details on the page which you have linked in the post above and there is no fingerprint mentioned!
Greets

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Ref: PQX32E-02400LEN
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> 2. Is there speed for it or all harddisks is the same?
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> 3.does it effect it?
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Hello all,
I'd be most grateful if anyone could help with this..
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Hey!
yeah this is really strange, am getting the same issue with my X300-11T.
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Hi leonardo76,
I think your question is already answered so I dont understand what you expect or waiting for...
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The notebook supports the SATA interface.
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Hello,
sorry for my bad English but my schooldays are along time ago.
I thought about to buy a Toshiba Qosmio X300-14P.
The price is ok for me but the CPU is not the strongest but the other X300 are to expensive for me.
Is it possible to change the p8600 into a p9500 by myself? I know about the warranty but is ist possible to buy another CPU and do this into the X300-14P?
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Of course you can upgrade the cpu, only i would do it via Toshiba service, since if you do it on your own your garanty is void.
Of course this way is more expensive.
Since you have the X300-14p, you can see in other models (series x32, not 31) what CPU is possible.
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hello,
i have the qosmio X300-14P with windows 7..
i play actual games (f.e. skyrim) which need the LATEST video driver!
the x300 is said to have a nvidia geforce 9800M GTX video chip.
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no nvidia hardware detected - unable to install !
=====================================
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it is vital that i install the latest drivers, how can i get by this problem ?
the driver that toshiba offers for the qosmio x300 is almoust 3 years old (2009, now it is 2012!) -
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HOW can i get the latest nvidia driver to work in the qosmio x300-14P ?
which is said to have a geforce 9800M GTX nvidia chip (though nvidia driver says : it does'nt).
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q.

thanks for the answers to all, especially blob.
yes i am a gamer and therefore i need always the very latest graphics driver.
(yes, skyrim runs, but not with highest settings of course).
but i am about to buy a new notebook soon anyway.
this branding is a problem i came across earlier with the toshiba ram already.
that's the reason why this time i dont buy a new toshiba notebook anymore,
i will switch to lenovo.
i thought about the qosmio x770, as it has some nice features.
but they removed firewire etc., well ok, i could maybe live with that,
BUT i CANNOT live without an express card slot !
the xpress card slot is vital, as only there you can expand your notebook.
missing firewire could be corrected by a firewire express card, i always
use e-sata hdd connections, so i have an express card with 2 esata ports
(to have faster hdd writings). one internal esata port (even a combo port esata/usb2)
is just not eno8gh for me, i have usually connected 2 or 3 external drives.
as well i quite often use my express tv + video card.
that a notebook at this price has no express card slot is unbelievable !
this is a knockout feature for me.
i can swallow a lot, but not a missing express card slot, as this is the only feature
that makes it possible to expand a laptop (with a e-sata card, with a tv card, f.e.).
and so i could switch my tvc card and my esata card and whatever else i need
or might need later.
i might have purchased the x770 had it an express card slot, but without
it is so ridiculous that i would never buy it, no matter how good the other features are.
an express card slot is VITAL for every notebook.
that someone could spare it it like selling a rain jacket without a zip.
too bad, because else the x770 is not so bad.
i wonder what made them cut the express card out in a notebook
(that is not expand-friendly anyway).
i saw that some others companies did it as well.
this will not be a fortune, as i foresee that many people will, if not at once, then later
hate the missing express card slot.
it was about time that they put good graphic cards in notebooks (while once they are branded,
they are a hassle, good or not), and now they start cutting the vital express card slot.
unexpandable is the first that comes to my mind when i think about the x770.
the product designers at toshiba seem not to be very good.
branding, missing express card slots - what else may we have to expect in the future ?
i was about time to switch.

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Hi there, Ive purchased this wonderful laptop last week but have a major concern involving the 9700m GTS,
When im playing on a game my GPU temperature would reach 95 - 100C / 200 - 215F!
The other components remain cool at around 40-50C.
The fan kicks in at 65C and then the heat will slowly rise to the temperature above, The fan does not appear to be running at full speed like it does for a second when you first turn on the laptop maybe at around 70% instead of 100%
Ive crawled a lot of x300 forums and other users have said their laptop reaches 65C and stays around that temperature for hours,
I dont have any artifacts or corruption/crashes at these temps but i am concern about the laptops longevity.
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Thanks in advance.

So i bought a Qosmio X300 - 130 in February ... Worst Buy EVER . Its been with Toshiba for almost 6 months now with this overheating issue . Its with them for 2 months (atleast there close to there 2 day turnaround time) , gets sent back to me , i send it back after one day , and the loop starts all over again . This loop only started when i actually had to get a technician to my house to show him that i am not lieing and that the laptop actually does go up to those temps and that it does actually shutdown . Seems Toshiba's way of stress testing a graphics card is abit flawed . Running a Benchmark program that comes from Noah's ark doesnt cut it boys
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I run a quite well know PC store in South Africa who supply hardware to the gaming market . Since this incident, I have since pulled the entire range off my shelves and sent it back to my supplier . I cant with a good conscience sell these laptops to my clients even thou i have had a few request for these . Only thing i am glad for is that this is not a clients laptop thats been with them for 6 months and counting .

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